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Banks are paying enormous amounts to settle cases stemming from bad mortgages, but investors in Wall Street's heavy hitters are looking at different numbers — and they like what they see. An index of bank stocks climbed 1.3% on Tuesday after Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. beat expectations for their second-quarter earnings. Analysts had warned that their results from trading bonds, currencies and commodities would be weak, but they came in better than expected thanks to strength late in the quarter. Citigroup kicked off the surge Monday, the same day that it said it would pay $7 billion to settle federal and state claims that it...

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Banks are paying enormous amounts to settle cases stemming from bad mortgages, but investors in Wall Street's heavy hitters are looking at different numbers — and they like what they see.An index of bank stocks climbed 1.3% on Tuesday after Citigroup...

The nation's largest motorcycle company has reported stronger-than-expected first-quarter results for 2014.
Harley-Davidson Inc., which trades on the New York Stock Exchange as HOG, on Tuesday reported net income of $265.9 million against revenue of...

Douglas Emmett Inc. has developed an extremely specific taste in properties: office and residential high-rises in Los Angeles and Honolulu.
At 15.1 million rentable square feet, its office space would cover 262 football fields. With nearly 2,900...

Investors retreated from stocks Thursday, leading the Dow Jones industrial average to its worst day in five weeks, after disappointing earnings from Wal-Mart and mixed news about the global economy. Financial markets reflected broader investor jitters:...

Home Depot's fiscal first-quarter net income climbed 12 percent, helped by better sales, but results fell short of expectations as a cold and rainy spring hurt results.
The company said May sales were "robust" and the No. 1 home improvement...

Tribune Co. said Tuesday that its net income fell 30% in the first quarter, as gains in broadcast revenue were offset by double-digit publishing declines and higher expenses.
Net income was $41.1 million, or 41 cents a share, compared with $58.4 million,...

Following a predictable script, female film writers continue to lag behind their male counterparts when it comes to earnings and employment, according to a new survey.
In the film sector, women writers fell further behind their white male counterparts in...

The largest tech IPO of the year will come from a company that many Americans have never heard of.
Alibaba -- a Chinese e-commerce behemoth that produces more sales and net income than Amazon and EBay combined -- has decided to go public in the U.S....

The largest tech IPO of the year — and perhaps of all time — isn't coming from Silicon Valley.
Alibaba, a Chinese e-commerce behemoth with more sales than Amazon and EBay combined, has decided to go public on Wall Street after months of speculation...

Former professional basketball star Bill Walton's back and leg pain was once so severe that he considered suicide. Nothing worked until he underwent spinal surgery with a procedure by NuVasive Inc. of San Diego.
"I had lost everything. But now I'm...

Stocks are edging higher as another big week for company earnings begins. Halliburton rose after the oil exploration company said it was profitable in the first-quarter after reporting a loss in the same period a year ago. Athenahealth, a provider of...

Comcast Corp. said Tuesday that its first-quarter net income rose by 30 percent as ad revenue surged at broadcast network NBC, helped by the Winter Olympics in Sochi and Jimmy Fallon's elevation as host of "The Tonight Show." The results beat...

Amgen Inc., the world's largest biotechnology company by sales, reported first-quarter revenue below analysts' estimates on lower-than-expected demand of its top drug, Enbrel.Quarterly sales increased 6.6 percent to $4.52 billion compared with a year...

Three months ago, when Apple reported its holiday earnings, the company posted record revenues thanks to refreshed lines of iPads and iPhones that had launched in the fall.
But instead of basking in a big win, Apple got pounded by Wall Street...

The NBC broadcast network, after trailing in the ratings for nearly a decade, could finish the TV season in first place among viewers prized by advertisers.
Comcast Corp. executives Tuesday lauded the peacock network's performance, which helped power the...

Stocks edged mostly lower Wednesday, breaking a six-day winning streak, as investors reacted to another round of quarterly earnings reports from U.S. companies. Telecommunication companies were also hit following quarterly results from AT&T, while...

The stock market is hitting new highs — just as corporate profit growth is slowing to a crawl.
Rising earnings helped drive share prices to a series of record peaks in the last few years. But that dynamic could be tested this week when companies such...

Matthew Vella certainly doesn't look like a troll.
Vella is the regular-guy chief executive of Acacia Research Corp., which calls itself a patent outsource licensing company. The Newport Beach firm links up with inventors who fear that others are...